Wikisource:References to Wikisource

As the Wikisource project expands its library of works, as well as its ability to vouch for the accuracy of the texts within, it draws increasing attention. This is a listing of books, news articles and other established sources that use a text hosted on Wikisource (as a source, citation etc).

"The essay concludes by offering a few illustrations meant to show the potential for using Wikisource as an open-access repository for primary source materials and scholarship, and considers some possible drawbacks of the crowdsourced approach."

"One of the wiki-based projects operated by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation - the Wikisource digital library - improves upon the shortcomings of existing open access repositories by bringing source texts and commentary together in a single place, with additional contextual materials hosted on other Wikimedia Foundation sites just a click away. These features of Wikisource, if more widely adopted, may improve academic discourse by highlighting conceptual interconnections among works, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and reducing the competitive advantages of proprietary, closed-access legal information services."

The wikisource edition of the Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999 was cited in "Challenges in the Evolution of the Medical Informatics Program at Heidelberg/Heilbronn (Germany)" by P. Knaup, M. Haag, F. J. Leven, H. Dickhaus (Methods of Information in Medicine 2009; 48 (1): 66–75)

"The second example I would like to talk about, is the project Wikisource. Here I will speak about the German language project, too. I will do this because also this project is a little bit special. The goal of the Wikisource project is to provide original source texts. It is clear that these are only texts which have no copyright (Public Domain). The technical basis for this service is also a wiki. With a little extension the proof reading is very easy, because the picture is over the edit window. Libraries can benefit from this service. Users will do what libraries can't afford to do. The result will be certainly free again so that it can be re-used by the library. There is often a discussion about whether libraries should build their own services on their websites, like this one. But this has an crucial disadvantage. Every library has to build its own community, so the critical mass of people for a community that works will be harder to reach. It would be better to allow the reuse of the own material."

The wikisource edition of John Godfrey Saxe's The Blindmen and the Elephant was cited in "Coping with the Quantitative Genomics ‘Elephant’: The Correlation Between the Gene Dispensability and Evolution Rate" by Yuri I. Wolf (Trends in Genetics, Vol. 22, No. 7)